ATLANTA-Funds from operations for the third quarter were $22.5 million, or 75 cents per share, versus $23.7 million or 73 cents per share for the same quarter in 1999.

DALLAS-Aetna Life Insurance Co. will be staying put, signing a 159,185-sf office lease at Stemmons Place, a class-A high-rise with location as its drawing point. The 20-story structure is located close to Dallas' CBD and the World Trade Center.

ORLANDO-Greg Hughes' Chesapeake Logistics Inc. of Tampa, FL is paying $31 million for the assets of 500,000-sf Mid-Florida Freezer Warehouses Ltd. in Port Canaveral, 60 miles east of Downtown. Mid-Florida Freezer officials concealed from Federal inspectors and later sold contaminated drums of fruit juice over a 30-year period, the government charged.